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A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 183 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 37 points 6 days ago

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 76 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Listing living people as dead in an official database is 99% likely a crime.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago

Ok, it's a crime. And?

Legality means nothing when you're the law. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 236 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like a great lawsuit.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 74 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I understand they’re handing out pardons like candy these days.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 98 points 6 days ago (14 children)

Can't pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't mean people shouldn't still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he's bleeding everyone else.

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Christ, first it was politely holding up paddles, now it's a fucking lawsuit

We are BEYOND all that shit my dudes.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 178 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Fun fact, this is "assault" and the guy has a wonderful civil case.

Fun fact #2: civil cases are not criminal cases and are not subject to pardons.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Fun fact #3: If he sues he will be thrown in prison

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 182 points 6 days ago (7 children)

The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 111 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won't be mad.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 66 points 6 days ago

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law

Not guilty

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It should have happened at the beginning, when they first showed up, and started making demands in the lobby. They were an unauthorized force of illegal pirates, trying to access classified systems. They should have been gunned down the moment they tried to force their way past the front desk.

Then they "authorized" their existence, and now they have authority to go anywhere they want.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 95 points 6 days ago (20 children)
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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 66 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why isn't this DOGE person arrested for assault? We need the name, if our justice system fails to work because of the government prevents it then our Constitution grants us the right to correct this via the 2nd Ammendment.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

Why isn't this DOGE person arrested for assault?

Because the rule of law has collapsed in America. Stop waiting for it, you are already there

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago

Because it's sensationalised and he didn't physically dragged from his desk by Doggy goon.

But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.

They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy

The article is based on another article by Washington Post, which did not mention any goon from Doggy nor any dragging.

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[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago

So we've officially got a Gestapo in the country now?

C'mon guys.... let's wake the fuck up here.

[–] tibi@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This sounds oddly similar to the early days of SS which started as an organized bunch of goons serving the nazi party as security guards.

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To be clear for any dummies like me who just woke up and are reading this, this comment is comparing DOGE to the early days of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, not comparing Greg's bravery to the early days of Social Security

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 48 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Spezi@feddit.org 19 points 6 days ago

They are trying to take over Social Security, so they can have the acronym.

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[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 49 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it's "illegals" now, the rest of us "parasites" next?

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[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 66 points 6 days ago

We're only a few months in, but this administration already needs Nuremberg Trials with the death-penalty as an option. These folks are actual overt traitors to our country, they are the enemies from within. And they should NOT get to just comfortably retire...they all need to be on death row.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 79 points 6 days ago (7 children)

If anyone, especially someone for DOGE, makes physical contact with me in a threatening manner, I'm breaking faces. Self defense is legal, these aren't cops, and that is assault. I'm also disgusted that coworkers didn't help out. Restrain the attackers, have them arrested. The president can only pardon federal crimes but I'm sure some was some illegally at the local level.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago (11 children)

That’s what is making me anxious is that people stood by and let this happen. Doesn’t give me hope for any sort of actual resistance when push comes to shove here.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 46 points 6 days ago (7 children)

It might be because people don't do well in a crisis and tend to seek out the normal. Like grabbing your luggage in a burning plane, or standing around in a medical situation. How to fix this? The immediate one is to have someone take charge and give instruction to others. For example in the medical example, you don't ask for help, you point at people and give them a duty, like calling 9-1-1 or getting something to help the victim. They'll do it, they just needed direction because their brain is stuck.

More importantly in this case, we need resistance and protesting to become a normal thing that people see and are exposed to. Then when they get into a situation where a reaction is needed, they'll have something to fall back on what to do and how to act. For most people they're still stuck in the "get back to normal" mode and hoping that things will get better if they just wait it out.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yesss make them work for it

o7 Greg, you madlad

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago

Sounds like assault and maybe other legal issues. They aren’t LEOs.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago (13 children)

Why arent they being charged with assault?

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

Tell me more about how DOGE isn't actually making the decisions in any department

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Somebody call Seabass to kick this doge pricks ass.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

once these demons get their Nuremberg trials, we should bring back getting hanged, drawn and quartered. maybe add something else too. nazis deserve nothing less.

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 24 points 6 days ago

How much of a POS do you have to be to work for them or fElon?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If we totally have a problem with dead people wrongly receiving benefits, then Musk's logic is we should intentionally categorize people incorrectly as dead to counteract that? Rather than ensuring the database is accurate?

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